junior

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

1.A younger person. [1913 Webster]

His junior she, by thirty years.— Byron.[1913 Webster]

2.Hence: One of a lower or later standing; specifically, in American colleges and four-year high schools, one in the third year of his course, one in the fourth or final year being designated a senior; in some seminaries, one in the first year, in others, one in the second year, of a three years' course. [1913 Webster]

1.Less advanced in age than another; younger. Abbreviated Jr. [1913 Webster +PJC]

Note: Junior is applied to distinguish the younger of two persons bearing the same name in the same family, and is opposed to senior or elder. Commonly applied to a son who has the same Christian name as his father. [1913 Webster]

2.Lower in standing or in rank, or having entered later into a position or office; as, a junior partner; junior counsel; junior captain; the junior Senator from New York. [1913 Webster]

3.Composed of juniors, whether younger or a lower standing; as, the junior class; the junior baseball league; of or pertaining to juniors or to a junior class. See Junior, n., 2. [1913 Webster]

4.Belonging to a younger person, or an earlier time of life. [1913 Webster]

Our first studies and junior endeavors.— Sir T. Browne.[1913 Webster]

5.of or relating to the third year of a four-year term; -- used of the third or next to final year in a U. S. high school or college. See junior[2], n..

Syn: third-year. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC]